'I don't think I'll ever have that chance of retirement, because I'll keep having to work and pay off my debt and future debts I'll have,' said IU student Robert Soliven.

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Annalisa Rodriguez
By Annalisa Rodriguez

Robert Soliven's family no longer eats out. No more vacations or up-to-date game systems, either. Most free time is gone too. It's what they have to do to ensure that his dream of becoming a doctor turns into a reality.

The problem is, for Soliven and countless other college students and their families, "going up" in the world has become synonymous with going into debt.

So Soliven, an undergraduate student at Indiana University in Bloomington, knows where he stands on one debate going on in Washington: whether to allow interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans to double on July 1. ...